The question is confusing, what exactly do you mean by “directly from online”? Just click a button in a web browser and it will install the entire distro? If so, pretty sure the answer is no; if you imagine something else, please clarify.
The etymology is that a “datum” (the plural of which is data) is something that is “given”.
So data is information that has been given.
In computers, data (information) is stored in bits (zeroes and ones). Eight bits are a byte, a billion bytes are a gigabyte, so the plan you describe allows you to download (or transmit overall?) 281000000000 = 16000000000 ones or zeroes that are used to encode data for computers (which they will decode into text, images, videos, whatever).
It is a computer. Computer is a very general term.
In many cases it’s both.
Most western legal systems work in this way: there are two separate domains of law: criminal law and civil law. Explained in a very simplified way:
Criminal law is about people having done wrong things to society as a whole. Prosecuting crimes is the job of the state (prosecutor) and not (usually) of the victim. People who do things that are defined as crimes may be imprisoned, or they may be fined (forced to pay money to the state). There are also crimes that do not directly have victims, but you can still be fined or imprisoned for committing them. Most offenses against traffic law are like that, e.g. who is the victim of someone driving too fast…?
Civil law is about how people treat each other. More specifically, tort law is about people doing wrong things to each other. If a person has harmed another person (even if it wasn’t a criminal offense, which may have higher standards of proof or intention), the victim can sue the offender in a civil court in order to collect damages. But that requires the victim taking action; neither you nor the state can usually take civil action against someone who didn’t harm you, only someone else.
In some legal systems it’s possible that those things can be combined to some extent, for example someone convicted of a crime may also be ordered to pay damages to the victim at the same time. In others they are completely separate.
I was thinking of geizhals.at which is usually where I go first when I need to buy anything online. Sometimes Amazon is the cheapest option, and then I buy from Amazon, but many times something else is!
Amazon’s monopoly has made it so hard to find alternative online stores to buy a lot of stuff
Where in the world do you live? Don’t you have price comparison websites with a lot of different online stores? We do for my country.
I think most children aren’t very interested in most art that isn’t made specifically for children.
Science meanwhile, there are a lot of ways to make that interesting to many children, with interactive elements and such.
More generally I think this https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship is a good way to think about things like this.
Well, ok, if all OP wanted to know is what a copyright license is:
By default, copyright law in most countries prohibits anyone except the author or other copyright holder from distributing creative works, including software, even in modified form. There are a few exceptions to this, but this is the general rule.
A license is a document that the copyright holder agreed to that grants someone permission to do so anyway.
In the context of open source, such a license needs to meet certain conditions to be considered open source. Among other things it needs to allow anyone (not just specific licensees) to distribute the software for any purpose, even in modified form.
The community is called “no stupid questions”, not “completely unclear questions”. I genuinely have no idea what you want to know. 🤨
I use Arch speak Esperanto btw
Yes, of course I’m talking about spoken language. Of course if English were written in kanji we would need fewer characters to express the same information, but it wouldn’t change the spoken language at all.
(I remember learning the following graphical user interface design rule: switch your application to Spanish or Portuguese to check whether UI messages still fit in the boxes you’ve put them in. Spanish and Portuguese are the common languages that need the most characters per unit of information.)
There already are plenty of conlangs (constructed languages). The main thing that differentiates them from natural languages is the fact that their grammar generally doesn’t have any exceptions (irregular verbs or nouns). It would be possible to create such a language based on the grammar and vocabulary of English.
The only conlang I’m proficient in is Esperanto, which definitely works very well for practical communication. One cool feature about Esperanto is the system of prefixes and suffixes that acts as a vocabulary shortcut, for example the word for “cold” is just “un-warm” (varma / malvarma), or the word for “school” is just “learning-place” (lerni / lernejo). The language you’re imagining would likely also consist of words like “unwarm” and “learnery”.
Meanwhile I don’t think the length of (root) words needs to be especially short. Studies have found that all languages transmit information at approximately the same rate, which is why Spanish with its relatively long words seems to be spoken so fast. Human brain capacity is a limiting factor for things like that.
Entering “artificial intelligence” in my instance’s community search gave me a few like: !ai_@lemmy.world !machinelearning@lemmy.world !gai@sopuli.xyz !artificialintelligence@lemmy.sdf.org !Aii@programming.dev !artificial_intelligence@lemmy.world
There is also one in German: !kintelligenz@feddit.org
Guess not, outside of sentences like this one. 😉
Someone else explained Tor already.
As for what can be found there: obviously it’s possible to put any data whatsoever on the dark web. But the main reason why people would put anything there is that they would get in legal trouble if they did it on the clearnet (= the ordinary, non-dark-web Internet). So if you’re not attempting to do illegal things, you probably won’t get much value out of it.
Nothing to do with torrents at all.
It does? !justpost@lemmy.world and !general@lemmy.world are exactly what you describe. I’m subbed to both, although obviously not everyone is (we can’t force people to read things they don’t want to).
ok, “Kurzsichtigkeit” in German definitely has both meanings without this causing confusion in practice
I certainly hope so. I hope eventually federated discussion groups become the default way for the general public to communicate about any topic that interests them.
But with how governments around the world are going after the Internet, especially the parts of it that aren’t profitable… I just hope some good parts of it survive at all. :(